Research at Western

Darby Finnegan and Risa Askerooth
Window to a Solar Future
#7 Out of more than 600 institutions, Western ranks in the TOP 10 nationally for graduates who go on to earn research doctorates
-Survey of Earned Doctorates
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Sixty Days on the Martian Night Shift
Western faculty and students are working with NASA to find signs of life on Mars
Melissa RiceGeology and Physics
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Your Brain on Sugar
Western's Jeff Grimm uses sugar to study the neuroscience of cravings, addiction and relapse
Jeff GrimmDepartment of Psychology
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The Plastics Problem
WWU faculty and students are working to grow a new circular economy out of the plastic trash polluting our oceans
John MisasiAssociate Professor of Engineering and Design
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Be well, when all is not well
Of course you don’t feel right. This is your brain in a pandemic. But you’re not alone, and things will get better